Is it as bad as Redcar?
It's a shame the way town centres even small ones like Stockton have declined over the decades. The internet, unemployment, low wages and general poverty are the main reasons. It would help if parking was free and plentiful. Maybe free or very cheap buses from the centres outlying estates would help. It won't happen though.

I live down there now. Teesside Park is the reason there’s nothing in town. All the bigger brands are there. They don’t need another branch so close by.

It’s canny for a night out though. The clock tower, goldies and the North Eastern all canny little pubs. It’s got a pool club called Room 21 that is rammed every night. Also a pub called the don bar on the riverside which is decorated in war memorial stuff, thousands of poppies on the walls and memorabilia all over.

Just built a Hilton that opens soon and they’re refurbishing the Globe, which will be the biggest venue between Leeds and scumcastle.

Durham Uni opened queens campus there. I suspect they never saw the place first. They've since withdrawn and moved back to Durham (after convincing Teesside and tje gov to pay for the new bridge). What a waste of time.

Is it as bad as Redcar?
It's a shame the way town centres even small ones like Stockton have declined over the decades. The internet, unemployment, low wages and general poverty are the main reasons. It would help if parking was free and plentiful. Maybe free or very cheap buses from the centres outlying estates would help. It won't happen though.

Use to get through there for beers when I was staying in Redcar on a project in 1998, seem alreet, but at 25yo and away from home on expenses, everything is alreet. Stayed in the Park Hotel on Redcar front, and it was brutal in winter, was a long termer so got the carvery for nowt. Around the pubs then ending up in the strippers along the front.

I live down there now. Teesside Park is the reason there’s nothing in town. All the bigger brands are there. They don’t need another branch so close by.

It’s canny for a night out though. The clock tower, goldies and the North Eastern all canny little pubs. It’s got a pool club called Room 21 that is rammed every night. Also a pub called the don bar on the riverside which is decorated in war memorial stuff, thousands of poppies on the walls and memorabilia all over.

Just built a Hilton that opens soon and they’re refurbishing the Globe, which will be the biggest venue between Leeds and scumcastle.